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Benjamin J Richardson

Professor of Environmental Law

Room 3.07 , Faculty of Law Building

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B.J.Richardson@utas.edu.au

An instrument of change for the environment

Environmental law addresses the most important challenges for humanity and the planet in the 21st century. The study of environmental law requires interdisciplinary approaches, including consideration of aesthetics, ecology, economics, politics, and more, in order to understand the context of governing human environmental behaviour.  Going beyond traditional doctrinal analysis, I have devoted my career to pioneering a more ambitious conversation about the philosophical and theoretical dimensions of environmental law, with a particular focus on time, aesthetics and ethics in environmental governance. Through this framework, I have researched a wide variety of issues, including Indigenous peoples and environmental management, ethical investing, corporate social responsibility, time in social and ecological systems, and most recently the role of aesthetics and the arts in environmental behaviour and law.

Apart from my academic endeavours, I belong to several community-based environmental organisations, and practice eco-stewardship in my own Tasmanian bush retreat, 'Blue Mountain View'—66 acres of high biodiversity land that I have protected forever with a conservation covenant. In this sanctuary and other places I have been involved in some citizen science projects monitoring local biodiversity.

A representative summary of my research highlights is detailed with the following abstracts of my books.

Before Environmental Law: A History of a Vanishing Continent (Bloomsbury / Hart, 2023)

This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia’s natural environment and examines the subject’s legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. Across nature conservation, pollution control, natural resources governance and other domains, this book reveals how many of today’s environmental laws emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century.
The history is told through analysis of the discrepancy between the
far greater efficacy of lawmakers to exploit rather than protect the
environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature’s backlash intensified
in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian
nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry

of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia’s environ- mental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations.

From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)

Across the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change.

This ground-breaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.

The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics (Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury, 2019)

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Not only have aesthetic values shaped the making of environmental law, such law also governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses.

The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the art, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.

Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies (Routledge, 2019), edited with A. Akhtar-Khavari

Ecological restoration is as essential as sustainable development for the health of the biosphere. Restoration however has been a low priority of most countries' environmental laws, which tend to focus narrowly on rehabilitation of small, discrete sites, rather than the more ambitious recovery of entire ecosystems and landscapes. Through critical theoretical perspectives and topical cases studies, this book's diverse contributors explore a more ambitious agenda for ecological restoration law. Not only do they investigate current laws and other governance mechanisms, they consider the philosophical and methodological bases for the law to take ecological restoration more seriously. Through exploration of themes relating to time, space, geography, semiotics, social justice, and scientific knowledge, the book offers innovative and critical insights into ecological restoration law.

Time and Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Disciplined by industrial clock time, modern life distances people from nature’s biorhythms such as its ecological, evolutionary, and climatic processes. The law is complicit in numerous ways. It compresses time through ‘fast-track’ legislation and accelerated resource exploitation. It suffers from temporal inertia, such as ‘grandfathering’ existing activities that limits the law’s responsiveness to changing circumstances. Insouciance about past ecological damage, and neglect of its restoration, are equally serious temporal flaws: we cannot live sustainably while Earth remains degraded and unrepaired. Applying international and interdisciplinary perspectives of these issues, Time and Environmental Law explores how to align law with the ecological ‘timescape’ and enable humankind to ‘tell nature’s time’.

Company Law and Sustainability (Cambridge University Press, 2015), edited with B. Sjafjell

This investigation of the barriers to and opportunities for promoting environmental sustainability in company law provides an in-depth comparative analysis of company law regimes across the world. The social norm of shareholder primacy is the greatest barrier preventing progress, and it also helps explain why voluntary action by companies and investors is insufficient. By deconstructing the myth that shareholder primacy has a legal basis and challenging the economic postulates on which mainstream corporate governance debate is based, Company Law and Sustainability reveals a large unexplored potential within current company law for businesses to reorient themselves towards sustainability.

Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing (Routledge, 2013)

This book assesses fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Written for a diverse audience, not just legal scholars, the book examines in a multi-jurisdictional context an array of philosophical, institutional and economic issues that have shaped the movement for responsible investing and its legal framework. While the fiduciary prejudice against responsible investing has waned in recent years, owing mainly to reinterpretations of fiduciary and trust law, significant barriers remain. This book advances the notion of ‘nature’s trust’ to metaphorically signal how fiduciary responsibility should accommodate society’s dependence on long-term environmental well-being.

Climate Change Law in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009), edited with Y. Le Bouthillier, H. McLeod-Kilmurray and S. Wood

This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change. With contributions from over 20 international scholars from developing and developed countries, the book tackles both long-standing concerns and current controversies. It considers the positions of developing countries in the negotiation of a new international legal regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol and canvasses various domestic issues, including implementation of CDM projects, governance of adaptation measures and regulation of the biofuels industry.

Local Climate Change Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Derived from papers given at a workshop, Local Climate Change Law examines the role of local government, especially within cities, in addressing climate change through legal, policy, planning and other tools. This edited volume offers a multi-jurisdictional perspective, featuring international contributors who examine both theoretical and practical dimensions of how localities are addressing climate mitigation and adaptation in Australia, Canada, China, Europe, South Africa and the United States, as well as considering the place of localities in global climate law agreements and transnational networks. Overall, the book highlights that local governments can make a useful contribution to fighting global warming in an era where national governments are often reluctant to act.

Indigenous Peoples and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2009), edited with K. McNeil and S. Imai

This book provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples. It focuses on the common law jurisdictions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, as well as relevant international law developments. The edited collection of new essays features 13 contributors including many Indigenous scholars, drawn from around the world. The book provides a pithy overview of the subject-matter, enabling readers to appreciate the seminal issues, precedents and international legal trends of most concern to Indigenous peoples.

Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Environmental harm is commonly associated with the front-line companies that most visibly consume and pollute our shared natural resources. Rarely are the “unseen polluters”, the financial institutions that fund  eco-damaging corporations, put at the forefront of the environmental debate. By focusing on these unseen polluters, this book examines the response of the movement for socially responsible investment (SRI) and its current regulation worldwide. In offering a guide to possible reform to ensure ethically-based investments, this book proposes greater regulatory supervision of SRI.

Environmental Law for Sustainability (Hart Publishing, 2006), edited with S. Wood

This volume of essays presents critical scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. The book goes beyond conventional descriptions of environmental law and policy to a theoretical and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of law in sustainable development. In particular, the book explores: future directions in command regulation; changing forms of public administration; risk assessment and precautionary regulation; ecological justice; public participation in environmental decision-making; indigenous peoples and the environment; industry self-regulation; economic instruments; sustainable finance; and the state of international environmental law.

Environmental Regulation through Financial Organisations (Kluwer, 2002)

This work takes a comparative perspective of practice in the European Union, North America, Japan and Australasia, arguing that existing legal reforms to promote sustainable development are unlikely to succeed unless environmental policy is embedded in the financial services sector. It shows how this sector plays a crucial role in creating the financial conditions that allow much economic development to proceed. Financial markets are already highly regulated for various public policy objectives, and there is scope to adapt existing regulation to incorporate environmental aspects into the financial sector. Beyond this sector, the book raises complex questions regarding the relationship between the state and market i in environmental policy.

Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms (Kluwer Law, 1999), edited with K. Bosselmann

This edited volume examines obstacles to environmental justice in neo-liberal economic systems founded upon deregulation, privatization and the preference for market mechanisms. The book explores definitions and policy dimensions of environmental justice and market mechanisms. It is the first to investigate the link between these two approaches, measuring market-based tools of environmental law such as tradable permits against the requirements of environmental justice.  The book concludes with a call to transcend the dichotomy between regulation and the market, and advocates a `new deal', a combined effort of the state and the market in which environmental justice provides the overall normative framework.

Professor Benjamin J. Richardson is a scholar of environmental law whose research integrates multiple disciplines of knowledge including environmental history, film studies and the arts. He holds a professorial appointment with the UTAS Faculty of Law along with periodic affiliations with other universities including Queen’s University (Canada) and Tilburg University (Netherlands), and an array of extra-curricular engagements with community and non-academic groups.

Biography

After completing his undergraduate studies in law and political science at Macquarie University and his PhD at the Australian National University, Professor Richardson worked abroad for nearly two decades. Prior to joining UTAS in July 2014, Professor Richardson was at the University of British Columbia where he held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability and was Director of the Centre for Law and the Environment. Earlier, he held academic appointments at law faculties at York University (Canada), the University of Manchester, and the University of Auckland. Global recognition of Professor Richardson's work includes earning the Research Excellence Prize of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment Academic Network (in 2010) and the Senior Scholar Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (in 2012).  Before working in academia, Professor Richardson had stints in policy and consultancy roles for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in Sydney and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in Kathmandu and Nairobi. Please see Professor Richardson's full CV () PDF 572.5 KB.

Career summary

Qualifications

DegreeTitle of ThesisUniversityCountryAwarded
PhDLaw; Resource Management & Environmental Science Australian National UniversityAustralia1996
LLB,BA Macquarie University Australia1991

Academic Appointments

  • 2021 -: Adjunct Professor, York University and Queen’s University, Canada
  • 2017: Global Law Visiting Chair, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University, Netherlands
  • 2014  -: Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
  • 2011-14: Senior Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • 2003-10: Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
  • 1999-2002: Lecturer; Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Manchester, England
  • 1996-99: Lecturer; Senior Lecturer, School of Law University of Auckland, New Zealand

Memberships

Professional practice

  • Australian Greens – Disability Working Group (2023 - )
  • Tasmanian Independent Science Council (2020 - )
  • Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (2010-14)
  • UN Principles of Responsible Investment Academic Network. (2010-15)
  • Society of Legal Scholars, UK (1999-2014)
  • World Commission on Environmental Law, IUCN (1996 - )
  • National Environmental Law Association of Australia (1995 - )

Committee associations

  • UniSuper Consultative Committee (2020 - )
  • Australian Research Council, Excellence in Research (ERA): Humanities and Creative Arts Committee (2018)
  • Australian Panel of Experts of Environmental Law (2014-17)
  • Tasmanian Environmental Defenders Office, Management Committee (2014-16)
  • Advisory Board, Coalition of Universities for Responsible Investing (2011-14)
  • Advisory Board and Co-chair of SRI Research Cluster, Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (2010-13)
  • Social Audit Advisory Committee, Alterna Savings Credit Union (2006–08)

Other

  • Member, Teaching and Learning Committee, Faculty of Law (2014- )
  • Member, Research Committee, Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies(2014- )
  • Research Integrity Officer, Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (2015- )

Administrative expertise

Professor Richardson's significant experience in contributing to collegiate life within the university has been associated with his extensive record of administrative roles, including academic programme directing, committee chairing, academic standards setting and event organising. Among specific areas of responsibility, he has had considerable experience in student admissions, managing postgraduate study programmes, and research ethics approvals. He has served as the Associate Dean/Head of Teaching and Research at the UTAS Faculty of Law twice.

Teaching

Professor Richardson has 25 years experience as a teacher of environmental law and many other subjects. His teaching has covered most facets of domestic and international environmental law, including climate change law and marine law. His other teaching expertise includes Aboriginal legal issues, corporate social responsibility, legal philosophy and property law.

Teaching expertise

Professor Richardson has some 30 years pf experience as a teacher of environmental law and many other subjects including Aboriginal law, corporate social responsibility, legal philosophy and property law. He has won teaching merit awards or commendations at UTAS and was the co-recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Program Award in International Education from the Canadian Bureau of International Education. His teaching innovations include launching the Global Environmental and Resources Law Externship Program, the first such clinical education initiative in Canada.

Teaching responsibility

Research Invitations

His numerous invited visiting research positions include:

  • 2019: South African National Research Foundation’s Knowledge, Interchange and Collaboration award beneficiary.
  • 2017: Dickson School of Law, King’s College London University, Visiting Professor
  • 2013: Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand Visiting Professor
  • 2008: Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia Parsons Visitor
  • 2001-02: Socrates Programme, European Commission - Visiting Professor, Faculties of Law at the Universities of Stockholm (February 2001), Copenhagen (March 2001), Milan (October 2001) and Iceland (March 2002)

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Expertise

Environmental law including climate change law, biodiversity law, marine law. Major current research focuses on the relationship between time and environmental governance, of which a subset is research governance of past losses and eco-restoration. Other research expertise includes long-standing work on the legal dimensions of socially responsible investment (SRI) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). This research focuses on the legality of SRI, the capacity of SRI to be a means of governance in its own right, and how the legal system can facilitate SRI. The research on CSR considers how company law might be reoriented to improve the environmental practices of business corporations.

Research Themes

Professor Richardson's research dovetails closely with the core research themes of UTAS. As a scholar and teacher of environmental law, he analyses the influence of legal institutions on environmental decision-making and considers how the law may be reformed to promote sustainability. Over the past decade he has concentrated on the interface between business law and environmental law, and how sustainability can be incorporated into legislation governing corporations, financial markets and other dimensions of the business sector. Professor Richardson has also devoted many years to studying the movement for socially responsible investing as a means of disciplining the market. Social investors were active in the campaign to stop the Gunns Pulp Mill, which was stalled when the ANZ Bank declined to loan the money necessary to undertake the project. Social investing has similarities to corporate social responsibility, another focus of his research. Business corporations may voluntarily commit to improve their environmental performance, as evident by adherence to codes of environmental conduct, issuance of sustainability reports and investment in innovative environmental services and products.

In recent years Professor Richardson's research has taken a more philosophical orientation with an investigation of the role of time in environmental decision-making.  'Time' can yield rich insights into why environmental law has not been particularly successful and how it might be improved. The problematic temporal properties of environmental law include its stance towards the past, the future, the pace of time, and the timing of decisions. For example, environmental law can suffer from temporal amnesia as the lessons of environmental history are sometimes ignored or trivialized, resulting in past mistakes – such as pollution disasters – being repeated.  Conversely, the interests of posterity and long-term biosphere health can be belittled through glib rhetoric (eg 'intergenerational equity') without serious efforts to curb enduring environmental impacts such as soaring carbon emissions. Other temporal shortcomings may include poorly timed decisions, as evident in hurried environmental assessments to fast-track dubious developments, or procrastination on introduction of protective measures such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These temporal flaws also reveal apparent tensions between nature's temporal patterns and the time frames of law and other social systems. For example, arguments about the 'optimal' rate of exploitation of natural resources (eg forests or fish stocks) to satisfy human economic needs competes with a slower time frame for ecological regeneration and renewal. These and other aspects of time are the focus of Professor Richardson's work that is leading towards a major book.

Collaboration

  • Australian Panel of Experts of Environmental Law (2014 – current)
  • Responsible Investing Initiative, Canada (2011 – 2015)
  • Sustainable Companies Group, hosted at the University of Oslo, and funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2010 – 2014)
  • UN Principles for Responsible Investment Academic Network (2010  current)
  • Research Committee, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2007-2011; 2013 – current)
  • Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (2008 – 2014)
  • Natural Resources Law Knowledge Network, Canada (2008)
  • New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (1998-1999)

Awards

  • Senior Scholar Prize (joint winner), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law,  awarded at its 10th Annual Colloquium, University of Maryland, (1-5 July 2012)
  • 2012 Distinguished Visiting Researcher, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, Australia (April –May 2012)
  • Canada Research Chair (Senior, Tier 1), Government of Canada (2010)
  • Elected Member, Governing Board, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2010-2012)
  • Co-chair, Research Committee, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2007- 2009)
  • Award of Research Excellence (US$7,000), UN Principles for Responsible Investment Academic Network (2010)
  • Co-chair, Socially Responsible Investment Research Cluster, Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (2008 –)
  • Outstanding Program Award in International Education, Canadian Bureau of International Education (for the Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands)
  • Resources & Governments, co-directed with Professor Shin Imai) (2007)
  • New Zealand Resource Management Law Association, Annual Award for Excellence in Resource Management, to the founding members of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (1999)
  • Postgraduate Priority Research Scholarship, Australian Government (1992-1995)
  • Nora Rose Memorial Prize, Politics Honours Program, Macquarie University (1990)

Fields of Research

  • Environmental law (480203)

Research Objectives

  • Environmental policy, legislation and standards (190299)

Publications

Professor Richardson's published scholarship focuses on environmental law, with significant cognate work on aboriginal legal issues and business law (finance & corporate law). In particular, her has pioneered scholarly insights on the intersection between environmental law and the financial sector, especially the governance of socially responsible investing.

Among his edited and authored nine books, are Company Law and Sustainability (Cambridge University Press, 2015, with Beate Sjafjell), Socially Responsible Investment Law: Regulating the Unseen Polluters (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing: In Nature's Trust (Routledge, 2013). They build on his research on economic tools for environmental law, reflected in the books Environmental Regulation through Financial Organisations (Kluwer, 2002) and the co-edited volume Environmental Justice & Market Mechanisms (Kluwer, 1999).

On climate change law, Professor Richardson edited Local Climate Change Law (Edward Elgar, 2012) and Climate Law in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2009). He has also published on environmental law's impact on sustainability, notably co-editing / authoring Environmental Law for Sustainability (Hart Publishing, 1996, with Stepan Wood).

Aboriginal law is another of part of his diverse research interests, and her co-authored the report, Regional Agreements for Indigenous Lands and Cultures in Canada (ANU Press, 1995, with ben Boer and Donna Craig) and co-edited / authored the book Indigenous Peoples and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2009 with Shin Imai and Kent McNeil).

Total publications

211

Journal Article

(75 outputs)
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2021Harrison PA, Davidson NJ, Bailey TG, Jones Menna, Gilfedder L, et al., 'A decade of restoring a temperate woodland: Lessons learned and future directions', Ecological Management & Restoration, 22, (S2) pp. 164-174. ISSN 1839-3330 (2021) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/emr.12537 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 3

Co-authors: Harrison PA; Davidson NJ; Bailey TG; Jones Menna; Gilfedder L; Bridle K; Bowman DMJS; Baker TP; Wallis L; Potts BM

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2021McCormack PC, Richardson BJ, Takacs D, Bastmeijer K, 'Wilderness law in the Anthropocene: pragmatism and purism', Environmental Law, 51, (2) pp. 383-435. ISSN 0046-2276 (2021) [Refereed Article]

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2021Richardson BJ, 'Space matters: environmental law's spatial character and context', Journal of Environmental Law pp. 1-9. ISSN 0952-8873 (2021) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1093/jel/eqab039 [eCite] [Details]

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2021Richardson BJ, Hamasaki N, 'Rights of nature versus conventional nature conservation: international lessons from Australia's Tarkine wilderness', Environmental Policy and Law, 51, (3) pp. 159-173. ISSN 1878-5395 (2021) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-201066 [eCite] [Details]

Co-authors: Hamasaki N

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2020Akhtar-Khavari A, Richardson B, 'Ecological restoration and the Samuel review of the EPBC Act', Australian Environment Review, 35, (2) pp. 129-134. ISSN 1035-137X (2020) [Refereed Article]

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2020Lee E, Richardson B, Ross H, 'The 'Uluru statement from the heart': investigating Indigenous Australian sovereignty', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 23, (1-2) pp. 18-41. ISSN 1440-5202 (2020) [Refereed Article]

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2020Richardson BJ, 'Protesting against climate breakdown: novel legal options', Australian Environment Review, 35, (1) pp. 21-25. ISSN 1035-137X (2020) [Refereed Article]

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2020Sukdeo VH, Richardson BJ, 'Collateral damage: relaxing environmental and labour standards during the pandemic', coronajournal, May pp. 1-4. (2020) [Non Refereed Article]

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2020Uffman-Kirsch LB, Richardson BJ, Van Putten IE, 'A new paradigm for social license as a path to marine sustainability', Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 Article 571373. ISSN 2296-7745 (2020) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.571373 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 6Web of Science - 5

Co-authors: Uffman-Kirsch LB; Van Putten IE

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2019Nilsen HR, Sjafjell B, Richardson BJ, 'The Norwegian government pension fund global. Risk based versus ethical investments', Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (Quarterlies on Economic Research), 88, (1) pp. 65-78. ISSN 1861-1559 (2019) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3790/vjh.88.1.65 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Richardson BJ, 'Green Illusions: governing CSR aesthetics', Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 36 pp. 3-35. ISSN 0710-0841 (2019) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.22329/wyaj.v36i0.6065 [eCite] [Details]

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2018Hogan JM, Richardson Benjamin, 'Between nature and culture: The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil' at TMAG', Art Monthly Australia, 306 pp. 30-31. ISSN 1033-4025 (2018) [Letter or Note in Journal]

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2018Lee E, Richardson BJ, 'From museum to living cultural landscape: governing Tasmania's wilderness world heritage', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 20 pp. 78-107. ISSN 1835-0186 (2018) [Refereed Article]

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2018Richardson BJ, 'It is about time: understanding the textures of time in Australian Environmental Law', Environmental and planning law journal, 35, (3) pp. 299-319. ISSN 0813-300X (2018) [Refereed Article]

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Citations: Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1

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2018Richardson BJ, 'Aesthetics and environmental law: valuing Tasmania's ordinary' nature', Griffith Law Review pp. 1-30. ISSN 1038-3441 (2018) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2018.1477364 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 7Web of Science - 6

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2018Richardson BJ, 'Climate change law: encounters with aesthetics and art', Climate Law, 8, (3-4) pp. 279-319. ISSN 1878-6553 (2018) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1163/18786561-00803011 [eCite] [Details]

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2018Richardson BJ, Barritt E, Bowman M, 'Beauty: a lingua franca for environmental law?', Transnational Environmental Law, 8, (1) pp. 1-29. ISSN 2047-1025 (2018) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1017/S2047102518000195 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 9Web of Science - 12

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2018Richardson BJ, Hogan J, 'The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil': The aesthetics of persecution and protection', Alternative Law Journal, 43, (4) pp. 269-274. ISSN 1037-969X (2018) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1177/1037969X18783536 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Web of Science - 1

Co-authors: Hogan J

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2017Akhtar-Khavari A, Richardson Benjamin, 'Ecological restoration and the law: recovering nature's past for the future', Griffith Law Review, 26, (2) pp. 147-153. ISSN 1038-3441 (2017) [Letter or Note in Journal]

DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2017.1366289 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 1

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Restoring layered geographies: ecology, society and time', Griffith Law Review, 26, (2) pp. 154-177. ISSN 1038-3441 (2017) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2017.1348437 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 3

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Divesting from climate change: the road to influence', Law and Policy, 39, (4) pp. 325-348. ISSN 0265-8240 (2017) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/lapo.12081 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 13Web of Science - 14

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2017Sjafjell B, Nilsen HR, Richardson BJ, 'Investing in sustainability or feeding on stranded assets? The Norwegian government pension fund global', Wake Forest Law Review, 52, (4) pp. 949-979. ISSN 0043-003X (2017) [Refereed Article]

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2016Butterly L, Richardson BJ, 'Indigenous peoples and saltwater / freshwater governance', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8, (26) pp. 3-8. ISSN 1328-5475 (2016) [Refereed Article]

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2016Richardson B, Baxter T, 'Governance of Tasmania's private bushlands: artful ensemble or hodgepodge?', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 33, (1) pp. 47-67. ISSN 0813-300X (2016) [Refereed Article]

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Co-authors: Baxter T

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Resourcing ecological restoration: the legal context for commercial initiatives', Restoration Ecology, 24, (5) pp. 686-691. ISSN 1061-2971 (2016) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/rec.12390 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 10Web of Science - 14

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Universities unloading on fossil fuels: the legality of divesting', Carbon and Climate Law Review, 10, (1) pp. 62-74. ISSN 1864-9904 (2016) [Refereed Article]

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2016Richardson BJ, 'The emerging age of ecological restoration law', Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 25, (3) pp. 1-14. ISSN 2050-0386 (2016) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/reel.12165 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 9Web of Science - 15

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Fossil fuels divestment: is it lawful?', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 39, (4) pp. 1686-1714. ISSN 0313-0096 (2016) [Refereed Article]

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2016Richardson BJ, Butterly L, 'Lost in time: the missing temporality of environmental law', Australian Environment Review, 30, (8) pp. 182-186. ISSN 1035-137X (2016) [Refereed Article]

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2016Richardson BJ, Lefroy T, 'Restoration dialogues: improving the governance of ecological restoration', Restoration Ecology, 24, (5) pp. 668-673. ISSN 1526-100X (2016) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/rec.12391 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 26Web of Science - 27

Co-authors: Lefroy T

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2015Richardson B, Butterly L, 'Temporalities of Environmental Governance: Insights from Australia's Marine Reserves Review', IUCN Academy of Environmental Law eJournal, 6 pp. 96-100. ISSN 1929-6088 (2015) [Refereed Article]

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2015Richardson BJ, 'Reclaiming nature: eco-restoration of liminal spaces', Australian Journal of Environmental Law, 2 pp. 1-23. ISSN 2204-1613 (2015) [Refereed Article]

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2015Richardson BJ, Peihani M, 'Universal Investors and Socially Responsible Finance: A Critique of a Premature Theory', Banking and Finance Law Review, 30 pp. 405-455. ISSN 0832-8722 (2015) [Refereed Article]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Law', Essential Readings in Environmental Law pp. 1-10. (2014) [Professional, Non Refereed Article]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Rewilding Tasmania's Lake Pedder: Past Loss as Nature's Lex Ferenda', University of Tasmania Law Review, 33, (2) pp. 194 - 221. ISSN 0082-2108 (2014) [Refereed Article]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'The Evolving Marketscape of Climate Finance', Climate Law, 4, (1-2) pp. 94-106. ISSN 1878-6553 (2014) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1163/18786561-00402008 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 6

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Socially responsible investing for sustainability: Overcoming its incomplete and conflicting rationales', Transnational Environmental Law, 2, (2) pp. 311-338. ISSN 2047-1025 (2013) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1017/S2047102513000150 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 17Web of Science - 17

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Sovereign Wealth Funds and Socially Responsible Investing: An Emerging Public Fiduciary', Global Journal of Comparative Law, 1 pp. 125-162. ISSN 2211-9051 (2013) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1163/2211906X-00102001 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 6

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary responsibility in retail funds: clarifying the prospects for SRI', Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 3, (1) pp. 1-16. ISSN 2043-0795 (2013) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2012.751349 [eCite] [Details]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Are social investors influential?', European Company Law, 9, (2) pp. 133-141. ISSN 1572-4999 (2012) [Refereed Article]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'SRI and Extractive Industries', 2, (1) pp. 1-2. ISSN 2043-0795 (2012) [Edited Journal]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary Relationships for Socially Responsible Investing: A Multinational Perspective', American Business Law Journal, 48, (3) pp. 597-640. ISSN 0002-7766 (2011) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-1714.2011.01121.x [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 10Web of Science - 13

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Quest for Sustainability: Insights from Norway and New Zealand', Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2, (Fall) pp. 1-27. ISSN 1459-9686 (2011) [Refereed Article]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'A Damp Squib: Environmental Law from a Human Evolutionary Perspective', Law and Prosociality eJournal, 7, (3) pp. 2-43. (2011) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1760043 [eCite] [Details]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'From fiduciary duties to fiduciary relationships for socially responsible investing: responding to the will of beneficiaries', Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 1 pp. 5-19. ISSN 2043-0795 (2011) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3763/jsfi.2010.0002 [eCite] [Details]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'An Improbable Union: Sustainability and Company Law', 8, (2/3) pp. 54-55. ISSN 1572-4999 (2011) [Edited Journal]

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2011Richardson BJ, Preu FJ, 'German Socially Responsible Investment: Barriers and Opportunities', German Law Journal: review of developments in German, European and International jurisprudence, 12, (3) pp. 865-900. ISSN 2071-8322 (2011) [Refereed Article]

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2011Richardson BJ, Wood S, Tanner G, 'What Ever Happened to Canadian Environmental Law?', Ecology Law Quarterly, 37, (4) pp. 981-1040. ISSN 0046-1121 (2011) [Refereed Article]

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Citations: Scopus - 17Web of Science - 13

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2010Richardson BJ, Cragg W, 'Being Virtuous and Prosperous: SRI's Conflicting Goals', Journal of Business Ethics, 92, (1) pp. 21-39. ISSN 0167-4544 (2010) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0632-9 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 48Web of Science - 43

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Can Socially Responsible Investment Provide a Means of Environmental Regulation', Monash University Law Review, 35, (2) pp. 262-295. ISSN 0311-3140 (2009) [Refereed Article]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Climate Finance and its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy through Socially Responsible Financing', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 58, (3) pp. 597-626. ISSN 0020-5893 (2009) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1017/S0020589309001213 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 47Web of Science - 49

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Keeping Ethical Investment Ethical: Regulatory Issues for Investing for Sustainability', Journal of Business Ethics, 87, (4) pp. 555-572. ISSN 0167-4544 (2009) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9958-y [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 137Web of Science - 123

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2009Richardson BJ, Cragg W, 'Reforming Climate Finance through Investment Codes of Conduct', Wisconsin International Law Journal, 27, (3) pp. 481-512. ISSN 0743-7951 (2009) [Refereed Article]

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2008Richardson BJ, 'Putting Ethics into Environmental Law: Fiduciary Duties for Ethical Investment', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 46, (2) pp. 243-291. ISSN 0030-6185 (2008) [Refereed Article]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'Protecting Indigenous Peoples through Socially Responsible Investment', Indigenous Law Journal, 6, (1) pp. 206-234. ISSN 1703-4566 (2007) [Refereed Article]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'Financing Sustainability: The New Transnational Governance of Socially Responsible Investment', Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 17 pp. 73-110. ISSN 0965-1721 (2007) [Refereed Article]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'Do the Fiduciary Duties of Pension Funds Hinder Socially Responsible Investment?', Banking and Finance Law Review, 22, (2) pp. 145-201. ISSN 0832-8722 (2007) [Refereed Article]

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2006Richardson BJ, 'Greening the Financial Sector: Legal Reforms in the European Union', Yearbook of European Law, 7 pp. 159-203. ISSN 0263-3264 (2006) [Refereed Article]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'The Equator Principles: The Voluntary Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Finance', European Environmental Law Review, 14, (11) pp. 280-290. ISSN 1879-3886 (2005) [Refereed Article]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'Is East Asia Industrializing Too Quickly? Environmental Regulation in Its Special Economic Zones', UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 22, (1) pp. 150-244. ISSN 0884-0768 (2005) [Refereed Article]

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2004Richardson BJ, 'Uneven Modernisation: Environmental Regulation in China's Special Economic Zones', Asia Pacific Law Review, 12, (2) pp. 115-142. ISSN 1019-2557 (2004) [Refereed Article]

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2004Richardson BJ, 'Financing Environmental Change: A New Role for Canadian Environmental Law', McGill Law Journal, 49, (1) pp. 145-202. ISSN 0024-9041 (2004) [Refereed Article]

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2004Richardson BJ, 'Climate Law and Economic Policy Instruments: A New Field of Environmental Law', Environmental Liability, 12, (1) pp. 1-14. ISSN 0966-2030 (2004) [Refereed Article]

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2003Richardson BJ, 'Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 10, (3) pp. 1-32. ISSN 1023-263X (2003) [Refereed Article]

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2003Richardson BJ, 'Ethical Financing in Britain: A Neglected Prerequisite for Sustainability', Environmental Law Review, 5 pp. 109-133. ISSN 1740-5564 (2003) [Non Refereed Article]

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2003Richardson BJ, Chanwai K, 'Taxing and Trading in Corporate Energy Activities: Pioneering UK Reforms to Address Climate Change', International Company and Commercial Law Review, 14 pp. 18-27. ISSN 0958-5214 (2003) [Refereed Article]

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2003Richardson BJ, Chanwai K, 'The UK's Climate Change Levy: Is It Working?', Journal of Environmental Law, 15, (1) pp. 39-58. ISSN 0952-8873 (2003) [Refereed Article]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Enlisting Institutional Investors in Environmental Regulation: Some Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives', North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 28, (2) pp. 247-356. ISSN 0743-1759 (2002) [Refereed Article]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Pensions law reform and environmental policy: a new role for institutional investors', Journal of International Financial Markets: Law and Regulation, 5 pp. 159-169. (2002) [Refereed Article]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Economic Instruments in UK Environmental Law Reform: Is the UK Government Sending the Right Signals'?', European Journal of Law Reform, 3, (4) pp. 427-449. ISSN 1387-2370 (2002) [Refereed Article]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Mandating Environmental Liability Insurance', Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, 12, (2) pp. 293-329. ISSN 1064-3958 (2002) [Refereed Article]

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2001Richardson BJ, 'Indigenous Peoples, International Law and Sustainability', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 11, (1) pp. 1-82. ISSN 0962-8797 (2001) [Refereed Article]

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2000Richardson BJ, 'Environmental Law in Postcolonial Societies: Straddling the Local - Global Institutional Spectrum', Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 11, (1) pp. 1-82. ISSN 1050-0391 (2000) [Refereed Article]

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2000Richardson BJ, 'Financial institutions for sustainability', Environmental Liability, 8, (2) pp. 52-64. (2000) [Refereed Article]

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2000Richardson BJ, Palmer K, 'The Emerging Citizenship' Discourse in Environmental Law: A New Zealand Perspective', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 17, (2) pp. 99-117. ISSN 0813-300X (2000) [Refereed Article]

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Book

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2020Richardson BJ, 'From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion: New Protest Movements Shaping our Future', Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, USA, pp. 200. ISBN 9781800881082 (2020) [Edited Book]

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2019Akhtar-Khavari A, Richardson BJ, 'Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies', Routledge, London, pp. 294. ISBN 9781138605015 (2019) [Edited Book]

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2019Richardson B, 'The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics', Hart Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 362. ISBN 9781509924608 (2019) [Authored Research Book]

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Time and Environmental Law: Telling Nature's Time', Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 405. ISBN 9781108120678 (2017) [Authored Research Book]

DOI: 10.1017/9781108120678 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 28

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2015Sjafjell B, Richardson BJ, 'Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities', Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 356. ISBN 9781107043275 (2015) [Edited Book]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing: In Nature's Trust', Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 334. ISBN 9780415691369 (2013) [Authored Research Book]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities', Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 401. ISBN 978 0 85793 747 6 (2012) [Edited Book]

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2009Richardson BJ, Imai S, McNeil K, 'Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives', Hart Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 432. ISBN 978 0 85793 747 6 (2009) [Edited Book]

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2009Richardson BJ, Le Bouthillier Y, McLeod-Kilmurray H, Wood s, 'Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Community', Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 424. ISBN 978 1 84844 226 9 (2009) [Edited Book]

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2008Richardson BJ, 'Socially Responsible Investment Law: Regulating the Unseen Polluters', Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 600. (2008) [Authored Research Book]

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2006Richardson BJ, Wood S, 'Environmental Law for Sustainability', Hart Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 487. ISBN 9789041117359 (2006) [Edited Book]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Environmental regulation through financial organisations: comparative perspectives on the industrialised nations', Kluwer Law International, London, pp. 407. ISBN 9789041117359 (2002) [Authored Research Book]

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1999Richardson BJ, Bosselmann K, 'Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms: Key Challenges for Environmental Law and Policy', Kluwer Law, United Kingdom, pp. 354. (1999) [Edited Book]

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Chapter in Book

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2021Richardson BJ, 'Climate Change Law and Aesthetics: A Primer', Debating Climate Law, Cambridge University Press, B Mayer and A Zahar (ed), UK, pp. 412-430. ISBN 9781108879064 (2021) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.1017/9781108879064.030 [eCite] [Details]

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2021Richardson BJ, Sjaafjell B, 'Business and Industry', The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Oxford University Press, L Rajamani and J Peel (ed), UK, pp. 718-734. ISBN 9780198849155 (2021) [Research Book Chapter]

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2020Richardson BJ, 'Art and activism in transnational environmental governance', Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, V Heyvaert and L-A Duvic-Paoli (ed), Cheltenham, UK, pp. 248-266. ISBN 9781788119627 (2020) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4337/9781783478330.00029 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Akhtar-Khavari A, Richardson BJ, 'Ecological restoration and the Anthropocene', Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies, Routledge, A Akhtar-Khavari and BJ Richardson (ed), London, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781138605015 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4324/9780429468315-1 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Richardson BJ, 'Timescapes of ecological restoration', Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies, Routledge, A Akhtar-Khavari and BJ Richardson (ed), London, pp. 50-71. ISBN 9781138605015 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4324/9780429468315-3 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Richardson BJ, 'Fossil Fuels Divestment: A Strategy for Sustainability?', Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance: Toward Responsible and Coherent Regulatory Frameworks, Edward Elgar Pub, C Gammage and T Novitz (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 280-299. ISBN 978 1 78897 103 4 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4337/9781788971041 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Richardson BJ, 'Socially and environmentally responsible investment', Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, K Miles (ed), UK, pp. 504-524. ISBN 9781784714628 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4337/9781784714635 [eCite] [Details]

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2019Richardson Benjamin, 'Aligning Social Investing with Nature's Timescales', The Cambridge Handbook on Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press, B Sjafjell and C M Bruner (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 566 - 580. ISBN 9781108658386 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.1017/9781108658386.047 [eCite] [Details]

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Doing Time The Temporalities of Environmental Law', Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene, Hart Publishing, L Kotze (ed), Oxford, pp. 55-74. ISBN 9781509906567 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Doing time: the temporalities of environmental law', Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene, Hart Publishing, Kotze, L (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 55-74. ISBN 9781509906567 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]

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2017Richardson BJ, 'SRI's normative and ethics-based rationale', Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer International Publishing, DC Poss and AC Michalos (ed), Australia, pp. 1-6. ISBN 978-3-319-23514-1 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_35-1 [eCite] [Details]

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2016Richardson B, 'Local Authorities and Climate Change', Climate Change, Edward Elgar Publishing, DA Farber, M Peeters (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 80-91. ISBN 9781783477609 (2016) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.4337/9781783477616 [eCite] [Details]

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Governing Fiduciary Finance', Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment, Routledge, Hebb T, et al (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 650-666. ISBN 9780415624510 (2016) [Research Book Chapter]

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2015Richardson BJ, 'Financial Markets and Socially Responsible Investing', Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities, Cambridge University Press, B Sjafjell and BJ Richardson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 226-273. ISBN 9781107043275 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]

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2015Richardson BJ, 'International Environmental Law and Sovereign Wealth Funds', International Environmental Law: Perspectives from the Global South, Cambridge University Press, S Alam, S Atapattu, CG Gonzalez, and J Razzaque (ed), New York, pp. 356-379. ISBN 9781107055698 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]

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2015Richardson BJ, Lee A, 'Social Investing without Legal Imprimatur: The Latent Possibilities for SWFs', Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Bassan F (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 389-414. ISBN 978 1 78195 519 2 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]

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2015Richardson BJ, Sjafjell B, 'Capitalism, the Sustainability Crisis and the Limitations of Current Business Governance', Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities, Cambridge University Press, B Sjafjell and BJ Richardson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 1-34. ISBN 9781107043275 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]

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2015Sjafjell B, Richardson BJ, 'The Future of Company Law and Sustainability', Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities, Cambridge University Press, B Sjafjell and BJ Richardson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 312-340. ISBN 9781107043275 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'To govern and be governed: the governance dimensions of SRI's influence', Socially Responsible Investment in the 21st Century: Does It Make a Difference for Society?, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, C Louche and T Hebb (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 249-274. ISBN 9781783504671 (2014) [Research Book Chapter]

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2013Bakker N, Richardson BJ, 'Breaching the Maginot Line: the frailty of environmental law in Europe and North America', Environmental Law for a Sustainable Society, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, K Bosselmann, D Grinlinton and P Taylor (ed), New Zealand, pp. 51-64. ISBN 9780473086466 (2013) [Research Book Chapter]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Socially Responsible Investing Through Voluntary Codes', Harnessing Foreign Investment for Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards, Cambridge University Press, Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Vinuales (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 383-414. ISBN 9781107030770 (2013) [Research Book Chapter]

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139344289 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 8

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Local Climate Change Law', Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities, Edward Elgar Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 3-28. ISBN 978 0 85793 747 6 (2012) [Research Book Chapter]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary and Other Legal Duties', Socially Responsible Finance and Investing, John Wiley & Sons, H. Kent Baker, John R. Nofsinger (ed), New York, pp. 69-87. ISBN 978-1-118-10009-7 (2012) [Research Book Chapter]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Africa: From Object to Agent of Socially Responsible Investment', Natural Resource Investment And Africa's Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, Francis N. Botchway (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 247-290. ISBN 978 1 84844 679 3 (2011) [Research Book Chapter]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'The Ties that Bind: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Governance', Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, Hart Publishing, BJ Richardson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 337-370. ISBN 9781841137957 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Students as Stakeholders in Legal Education: Gaining Admission to Law School', Stakeholders in the Law School, Hart Publishing, Fiona Cownie (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 127-155. ISBN 9781841137216 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'The Dyadic Character of US Indian Law', ndigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, Hart Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai and Kent McNeil (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 51-79. ISBN 9781841137957 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]

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2009Richardson BJ, Bouthillier Le Y, McLeod-Kilmurray H, Wood S, 'Introduction: Climate Law and Developing Countries', Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities, Edward Elgar Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson, Yves Le Bouthillier, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Stepan Wood (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 1-34. ISBN 9780857937476 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]

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2009Richardson BJ, Imai S, McNeil K, 'Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Historical, Comparative and Contextual Issues', Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, Hart Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai and Kent McNeil (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781841137957 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]

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2006Richardson BJ, 'Sustainable Finance: Environmental Law and Financial Institutions', Environmental Law for Sustainability, Hart Publishing, BJ Richardson and S Wood (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 309-340. ISBN 9781841135441 (2006) [Research Book Chapter]

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2006Richardson BJ, Craig D, 'Indigenous Peoples, Law and the Environment', Environmental Law for Sustainability, Hart Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson, Stepan Wood (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 195-226. ISBN 9781841135441 (2006) [Research Book Chapter]

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2006Richardson BJ, Razzaque J, 'Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making', Environmental Law for Sustainability, Hart Publishing, BJ Richardson, S Wood (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 165-194. ISBN 9781841135441 (2006) [Research Book Chapter]

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2006Richardson BJ, Wood S, 'Environmental Law for Sustainability', Environmental Law for Sustainability, Hart Publishing, Benjamin J. Richardson, Stepan Wood (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781841135441 (2006) [Research Book Chapter]

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Review

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YearCitationAltmetrics
2018Richardson B, 'Timing Environmental Responsibilty', Blogging for Sustainability, (20 August 2018) (2018) [Other Review]

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2018Richardson BJ, 'Research Methods in Environmental Law: A Handbook', Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 9, (2) pp. 1-5. ISSN 1759-7188 (2018) [Review Single Work]

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2018Richardson BJ, 'The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency', Public Law Review, 29, (4) pp. 351-355. ISSN 1034-3024 (2018) [Review Single Work]

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2017Richardson BJ, 'Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law, by Scotford Eloise Hart', Transnational Environmental Law, 6, (2) pp. 385-389. ISSN 2047-1025 (2017) [Review Single Work]

DOI: 10.1017/S2047102517000188 [eCite] [Details]

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Environmental Law in New Zealand', Otago Law Review, 14, (1) pp. 209-212. (2016) [Review Single Work]

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2016Richardson BJ, 'Banking on Climate Change', Transnational Environmental Law, 5, (1) pp. 207-209. ISSN 2047-1025 (2016) [Review Single Work]

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2015Richardson BJ, 'Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights. By Aoife Nolan, Rory O'Connell and Colin Harvey', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 64, (1) pp. 227-228. ISSN 0020-5893 (2015) [Review Single Work]

DOI: 10.1017/S0020589314000578 [eCite] [Details]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries: Perspectives on Anti-Corruption', Banking and Finance Law Review, 29, (2) pp. 397-400. ISSN 0832-8722 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Environmental Rights Revolution', B C Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 179 pp. 241-243. ISSN 0005-2949 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'EU Climate Change Policy', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 14, (4) pp. 405-408. ISSN 1023-263X (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance', International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 2, (1) pp. 73-79. (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance', Environmental Law Review, 8, (1) pp. 83-84. ISSN 1461-4529 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status and Self-Determination', Indigenous Law Journal, 4 pp. 241-51. ISSN 1703-4566 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'European Union Environmental Law: An Introduction to Key Selected Issues', Environmental Law Review, 7, (2) pp. 160-162. ISSN 1461-4529 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Energy Security: Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (1) pp. 78-79. ISSN 0962-8797 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Climate Change and Power. Economic Instruments for European Electricity', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 12, (2) pp. 216-217. ISSN 0962-8797 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'State Responsibility for Transboundary Air Pollution in International Law', The Modern Law Review, 65 pp. 632-634. ISSN 0026-7961 (2014) [Review Single Work]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Indigenous Rights Entwined with Nature Conservation', IUCN Academy E-Journal of Environmental Law and Policy pp. 283-285. ISSN 1929-6088 (2013) [Review Single Work]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Ethics and Socially Responsible Investment: A Philosophical Approach', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 49, (2) pp. 381-387. ISSN 0030-6185 (2012) [Review Single Work]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 21, (2) pp. 154-155. ISSN 0962-8797 (2012) [Review Single Work]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 20, (2) pp. 218-219. ISSN 0962-8797 (2011) [Review Single Work]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives', Transnational Legal Theory, 1, (4) pp. 645-650. ISSN 2041-4005 (2011) [Review Single Work]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement', Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2, (1) pp. 126-30. ISSN 1759-7188 (2011) [Review Single Work]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement', Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2, (1) pp. 126-130. ISSN 1759-7188 (2011) [Review Single Work]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World', IUCN Academy E-Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 1 ISSN 1929-6088 (2010) [Review Single Work]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide', Carbon and Climate Law Review, 4 pp. 405-407. ISSN 1864-9904 (2010) [Review Single Work]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development', Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1 pp. 116-117. (2010) [Review Single Work]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Responsible Business: Self-Governance and Law in International Economic Transactions', Journal of Environmental Law, 4 pp. 405-407. ISSN 0952-8873 (2009) [Review Single Work]

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2009Richardson BJ, 'Sustainable Development in International and National Law', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 18, (1) pp. 105-107. ISSN 0962-8797 (2009) [Review Single Work]

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2008Richardson BJ, 'The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 17, (2) pp. 252-254. ISSN 0962-8797 (2008) [Review Single Work]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'Responsible Investment', Banking and Finance Law Review, 22, (2) pp. 159-63. ISSN 0832-8722 (2007) [Review Single Work]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'An Introduction to the Law on Financial Investment', Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation, 1 pp. 67-68. ISSN 1742-6812 (2007) [Review Single Work]

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2007Richardson BJ, 'Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 16, (1) pp. 108-109. ISSN 0962-8797 (2007) [Review Single Work]

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2006Richardson BJ, 'The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 15, (1) pp. 115-116. ISSN 0962-8797 (2006) [Review Single Work]

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2006Richardson BJ, 'Our Box was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs', Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation, 1 pp. 67-68. ISSN 1742-6812 (2006) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'Eco-finance: The Legal Design and Regulation of Market-based Environmental Instruments', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (3) pp. 303-304. (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (2) pp. 183-184. ISSN 0962-8797 (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'African Environment and Development', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (2) pp. 189-190. ISSN 0962-8797 (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'Transboundary Damage in International Law', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (1) pp. 85-87. ISSN 0962-8797 (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'Environment and Statecraft. The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (1) pp. 79-80. ISSN 0962-8797 (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2005Richardson BJ, 'The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law', Journal of Environmental Law, 15, (3) pp. 422-425. ISSN 0952-8873 (2005) [Review Single Work]

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2004Richardson BJ, 'Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy', Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, 13, (2) pp. 289-92. ISSN 1181-7534 (2004) [Review Single Work]

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2003Richardson BJ, 'The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law', Journal of Environmental Law, 41, (4) pp. 728-734. ISSN 0952-8873 (2003) [Review Single Work]

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2003Richardson BJ, 'Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures', York University * Osgoode Hall Law School, 41, (4) pp. 728-734. ISSN 0030-6185 (2003) [Review Single Work]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'International Institutions: An International Organization Reader', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 11, (1) pp. 109-110. ISSN 0962-8797 (2002) [Review Single Work]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Environmental Law and Regulation', Environmental Law Review, 4, (1) pp. 76-77. ISSN 1461-4529 (2002) [Review Single Work]

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2002Richardson BJ, 'Multilateral Development Banking', Journal of Environmental Law, 14, (1) pp. 125-127. ISSN 0952-8873 (2002) [Review Single Work]

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2001Richardson BJ, 'The Governance of Corporate Groups', Journal of Environmental Law, 13, (3) pp. 421-423. ISSN 0952-8873 (2001) [Review Single Work]

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2001Richardson BJ, 'ISO 14001: Case Studies and Practical Experiences', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 10, (2) pp. 256-257. ISSN 0962-8797 (2001) [Review Single Work]

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2001Richardson BJ, 'Globalism, Localism and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to Sustainability', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 10, (2) pp. 251-252. ISSN 0962-8797 (2001) [Review Single Work]

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2001Richardson BJ, 'Environmental Law, the Economy, and Sustainable Development', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 14, (2) pp. 154-157. ISSN 0962-8797 (2001) [Review Single Work]

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2000Richardson BJ, 'International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific', International Company and Commercial Law Review, 3 pp. 120. ISSN 0958-5214 (2000) [Review Single Work]

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Conference Publication

(31 outputs)
YearCitationAltmetrics
2014Richardson BJ, 'Human Rights Responsibilities of Fiduciary Investors', Shareholders Association for Research and Education (SHARE), 21st Feb 2014, Vancouver, pp. 1. (2014) [Conference Extract]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'Reforming Finance Capitalism for Sustainability', Sixth Annual PRI Academic Network Conference, 13th-15th November, Paris (2014) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2014Richardson BJ, 'A Tour de Force or Damp Squib? Socially Responsible Investment in Australia', School of Accounting & Corporate Governance Seminar, 13th August, University of Tasmania, Hobart (2014) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Reforming Finance Capitalism for Sustainability', Reforming Finance Capitalism for Sustainability, 5-6th December, Oslo, pp. 1. (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary Responsibility in Retail Funds: Clarifying the Prospects for SRI', Responsible Investing Initiative, 9th October 2013, Online, pp. 1. (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Timescapes of Sustainability: Investing like Gardeners', It's Time: The Temporal Dimensions of Responsible Investing, 20-21 June, Vancouver (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Sustainable University Endowments', UBC New Economy Summit, 4-5 April, Vancouver (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2013Richardson BJ, 'Investing in Nature's Trust: environmental governance of the financial economy', Kirby Seminar, University of New England School of Law, 20 February 2013, Armidale (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'University Investors and Fiduciary Responsibility', University of Victoria Working Group on Responsible Investments, 6 November, Victoria (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Ethical Investing and Governance of the Financial Economy', University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Law School: Annual Lawyers and Ethics Eminent Speaker Lecture, 3rd May, Sydney (2012) [Keynote Presentation]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Should Environmentalists Pay Attention to the Financial Economy', UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 4-5th October, Vancouver (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Fiduciary Responsibility in Retail Funds: The Prospects for SRI', The Financial Sector and Sustainable Development Workshop, 4-5 October, Waterloo (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Five Follies of Fiduciary Finance Law Our Understanding of It, That Is', UN Principles of Responsible Investment Academic Conference, 1-3 October, York University, Toronto (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'A Damp Squib: Environmental Law's Limits in a Human Evolutionary Context', Institute for Sustainable Futures, 30th April, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'The Financial Economy: A New Frontier for Environmental Law?', Lewis & Clark School of Law, 19th March, Portland, United States (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2012Richardson BJ, 'Right to Develop - Right to Pollute?', UBC International Development Week, 8th February, University of British Columbia (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Small Ain't Always Beautiful: Local Government as a Stakeholder in International Climate Law', Local Climate Change Law Workshop, 22-23 October, University of British Columbia (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Responsible Financing and their Impact on Extractive Industries', Socially Responsible Investment and Canadian Extractive Industries Symposium, 10-11th September, University of British Columbia (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Can Financial Markets Promote Sustainable Companies?', Towards Sustainable Companies: Identifying New Avenues, 29-30th August, University of Oslo (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Unmasking Environmental Law's Tutankhamun', Trade, Corporations and Natural Resources Conference, 30th June, University of the West of England, Bristol (2011) [Keynote Presentation]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Canadian Universities and the Law of Responsible Investing', Coalition of Universities for Responsible Investing Symposium, 21st June, Victoria, British Columbia (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Sustainable Finance: A Maelstrom or Measured Mutation?', Navigating the Green Economy Conference,, 23-24th May, London School of Economics, London (2011) [Keynote Presentation]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Socially Responsible Investment', Protecting the Environment in the XXI Century: The Role of the Private Sector', International Symposium, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 20-21st May, Geneva (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Can Canadian Institutional Investors be a Muse for Corporate Social Responsibility?', CSR in the Pacific Rim Conference,Canadian Business Ethics Research Network and the University of British Columbia, 14-15th April, Vancouver (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Sustainability and Money Balance', Sustainability and Greenization Initiatives Seminar, Institute for Resources Environment & Sustainability, 9th March, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'Sustainable Development: What Role for Corporate and Financial Law?', Renewing Environmental Law: A Conference for Public Interest Environmental Law Practitioners, 3-4th February, Vancouver (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2011Richardson BJ, 'The Fiduciary Duty of Investors to Integrate ESG Issues into Investment Processes', Webinar, PRI Academic Network, 10th January, online (2011) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'Socially Responsible Investment as a Means of Improving Corporate Behaviour, with Particular Regard to Climate Change Issues', Sustainable Companies Workshop, 28th November - 3rd December, University of Oslo, Norway (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'Socially Responsible Investing and Fiduciary Law: Democratizing Governance of Investment Institutions', Responsive Regulation in Theory and Practice Workshop, 30 September - 1 October, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2010Richardson BJ, 'The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Limits of Law', Faculty of Law Seminar, 12th August, University of Tasmania, Hobart (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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2010Richardson BJ, Tanner G, 'Canadian Company Law and Corporate Environmental Responsibility', Sustainable Companies Workshop, 28th November - 3rd December, University of Oslo, Norway (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

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Other Public Output

(7 outputs)
YearCitationAltmetrics
2021Richardson BJ, 'Tasmania's salmon industry detonates underwater bombs to scare away seals - but at what cost?', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, Australia, 17 September (2021) [Magazine Article]

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2017Richardson B, 'Ecological Literacy and Restoration', Environmental Law blog, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 08 February (2017) [Magazine Article]

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2017Richardson B, 'Natural Visions: The Aesthetics of Environmental Law', Tilburg Environmental Law blog, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 28 August 2017 (2017) [Magazine Article]

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2015Lefroy T, Richardson B, 'We Quibble over 'Lawfare', But the Law is Not Protecting Species Properly Anyway', The Coversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, Australia, 12 November (2015) [Magazine Article]

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2015Richardson B, Baxter T, Browne R, 'Talking Point: Courting Disaster for Our Planet', The Mercury, Faifax Media, Australia, 17 September (2015) [Newspaper Article]

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2015Richardson BJ, Butterfly L, 'Marine Park Review Looks Set to Repeat Past Mistakes', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Trust, online, p. 1. (2015) [Magazine Article]

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2012Bakker N, Richardson BJ, 'Breaching the Maginot Line: The Frailty of Environmental Law in Europe and North America', University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, 34 (2012) [Government or Industry Research]

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Grants & Funding

Professor Richardson's academic career has been facilitated by generous research funding over many years. Prior to joining UTAS, he was awarded in Canada three SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) personal grants, which are equivalent to the Australian Research Council's Discovery Grants: C$110,146 (2014), C$97,827 (2009) and C$94,679 (2005). This research funding has been directed to work on socially responsible investment governance.

In 2010, he was awarded from the same body a C$1.4 million Canada Research Chair in the area of environmental law. Also, Professor Richardson has been a participant in some major collaborative grants: Kr 5.8 million from the Research Council of Norway and C$2.1 million from SSHRC for the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network and a further C$1 million from SSHRC for the Responsible Investing Initiative.

He has also raised several grants for organising conferences and related outreach activities, including C$40,000 from Canadian donors and NZ$44,000 from the New Zealand Law Foundation. Professor Richardson has also had success raising funding for teaching initiatives, including approximately C$25,000 to launch the Global Environmental and Resources Law Externship Program.

This year Professor Richardson has been awarded two internal grants:

  • University of Tasmania Institute of Teaching & Learning, to develop new interdisciplinary course on 'Indigenous Peoples of the World'. A$50,000
  • University of Tasmania, crossdisciplinary incentive grant, for a pilot project on eco-restoration science and governance. A$6,866

Funding Summary

Number of grants

27

Total funding

$10,596,077

Projects

Using Conservation Covenants for Ecosystem Restoration & Climate Adaptation (2024 - 2026)$301,846
Description
This project aims to investigate the role of conservation covenants in facilitating ecological restoration andadaptation to climate change. In light of international experience, the project examines Australia's legalexperience with conservation covenants, with case studies in NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. Theproject expects to generate new theoretical insights and practical knowledge about the obstacles andopportunities for enabling covenants to play a more ambitious role in meeting biodiversity conservation andrecovery goals. This should generate significant benefits to Australia in meeting its international environmentalobligations, and improving collaboration between governments and community and landholder stakeholders.
Funding
Australian Research Council ($301,846)
Scheme
Grant-Discovery Projects
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Akhtar-Khavari A; McCormack P; Fitzsimons J
Period
2024 - 2026
Grant Reference
DP240100719
Governance and practice of privately protected areas (2022)$15,000
Description
Sarah Brugler is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law. Sarah has a CALE Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship. The title of Sarah's thesis is: Private land conservation in environmental law: A study of governance and practice. A request for funding from the Barbara Thomas Fellowship for Excellence in Conservation administered by the Nature Conservancy has been made to support's Sarah's research and will be used to: -support attendance at the Land Trust Alliance Rally 2022 in New Orleans-undertake domestic travel to discuss covenant governance arrangements across Australia-miscellaneous research needs (interview transcription, recording devices, survey coordination)
Funding
The Nature Conservancy ($15,000)
Scheme
Barbara Thomas Fellowship
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2022
Australian Environmental and Planning Law Library (2019)$515,000
Description
This application from 12 Universities (UNSW, UTS, Melbourne, Sydney, ANU, UQ, UWA, UTAS, Griffith, UNE, La Trobe, Flinders) proposes that the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a free access research facility jointly operated by UNSW and UTS Faculties of Law, will develop a new research facility based on a Library of databases consolidating and enhancing access to legal and quasi-legal resources relating to Australian Environmental and Planning Law.
Funding
Australian Research Council ($515,000)
Scheme
Grant-Linkage Infrastructure
Administered By
University of Technology Sydney
Research Team
Mowbray A; Rayfuse R; Lyster R; Gurran N; Godden L; Peel J; Richardson BJ; McDonald J; Gardner A; Martin P; Anton D; Bell-James J; Dehm J; Grigg B
Year
2019
Grant Reference
LE190100061
ERA 2018/2019 REC Member: Professor Benjamin Richardson (2018)$22,342
Funding
Australian Research Council ($22,342)
Scheme
Contract Research
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2018
Engaging Communities in Nature Conservation through Aesthetics and Art (2018)$13,742
Description
The project aims to improve academic knowledge and practical knowhow in developing a richer and moresocially inclusive framework for engaging communities in nature conservation through aesthetics, includingthe arts, and thereby to generate recommendations for nongovernmental organisations and governmentpolicymakers working on environmental issues. This will be achieved through a community workshop, fieldCALHothouseResearchEnhancementProgramEOI2017Page5of12trip to a nature reserve, engagement with stakeholders especially school teachers, and scholarlypublications.Aesthetics is vital for engaging communities in their natural environments because it can generate anemotional and cultural commitment in a way that science and economics cannot easily solicit. However, theappeal to environmental aesthetics has tended to exalt landscapes that are pristine, without people, andto use imagery or messages that appeal primarily to specific socio-economic groups (eg, the well educated,affluent, and urban) while of less relevance to others, such as poorer, rural populations, disaffected youth,and sometimes Aboriginal communities.Because Australian society is deeply divided in how it values landscapes, we urgently need a moreinclusive and varied approach to reading aesthetic values in the environment (eg spiritual and historicvalues, and recreational benefits, in addition to ecological values). If environmental law and policy, and thepractices of environmental organisations, are to achieve broader community support, a more sophisticatedframework for assessing aesthetic values is needed to underpin environmental decisions.The project (in the UTAS-funded phase) collaborates closely with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC),the leading private land conserver in the state, to investigate how these challenges can be met through acase study of its Five Rivers Reserve in the central highlands. A community workshop and site-visit overtwo-days will involve academics, artists and local stakeholders to identify and evaluate a process forunderstanding environmental aesthetics, and to extrapolate how this can inform the work of organisationssuch as the TLC and government regulators such as the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Waterand Environment (DPIPWE).Thereafter, the project with external funding would be scaled up to include additional community-focusedcase studies in Tasmania and one mainland state, and partnering with a community nature conservationorganisation in that mainland state in order to develop a more comprehensive framework of relevance toother stakeholders across Australia.
Funding
University of Tasmania ($13,742)
Scheme
Grant - CALE Hothouse Alignment Scheme
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Richardson BJ; MacDonald AJ; Hogan JM; Walch MB; Rees A
Year
2018
Wave to Plate: establishing a market for Tasmanian aboriginal cultural fisheries (2016 - 2018)$255,195
Description
The project looks at the application of a terrestrial cultural business model to the marine environment and evaluates opportunities for indigenous engagement in marine activities. The project also develops indigenous research capactity.
Funding
Fisheries Research & Development Corporation ($255,195)
Scheme
Grant-Annual Open Call Round
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Haward MG; Frusher SD; Denny B; Sayer M; Richardson BJ; Lee EJ
Period
2016 - 2018
Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART) (2016 - 2019)$3,872,883
Description
A four year research program funded by the European Commission, and coordinated by the University of Oslo, to investigate how to achieve the European Union's and the United Nations' sustainable development goals through private enterprise and markets governance
Funding
European Commission ($3,872,883)
Scheme
Grant-Horizon 2020
Administered By
University of Oslo
Research Team
Sjafjell B; Ruohonen T; Lambooy T; Buhmann K; Munoz-Torres M; Faracik B; Oteng-Ababio M; Radwan A; Novitz L; Johnston A; Zamboni M; Richardson BJ; Surya D; Garf Ulfbeck V; Schoenbaum T; Nilsen H; Wei S; Taylor M; Knuutinen R; Du Plessis J; Cuccu F; Quentin D; Lynch-Fannon I; Mazur J; Szabo D; Nabi Khan A
Period
2016 - 2019
Environmental Restoration: Linking Science and Governance (2015)$6,866
Description
A workshop and accompanying research paper that examines eco-restoration in Australia and the development of more scientifically-informed governance and policy.
Funding
University of Tasmania ($6,866)
Scheme
Grant-Cross-Disciplinary Incentive
Administered By
University of Tasmania
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Jones ME; Vince JZ
Year
2015
Global Environmental and Resources Law Externship Program (2013)$14,378
Funding
University of British Columbia ($14,378)
Scheme
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund
Administered By
University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2013
Global Environmental and Resources Law Externship Program (2013)$9,682
Funding
University of British Columbia Faculty of Law ($9,682)
Scheme
Franklin Lew Innovation Fund
Administered By
University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2013
Canadian Universal Investors and Green Finance (2012 - 2013)$7,665
Funding
Sustainable Prosperity ($7,665)
Scheme
Research Grant
Administered By
University of British Columbia
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Maziar P
Period
2012 - 2013
Local Climate Change Law (2011)$18,562
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($18,562)
Scheme
Workshop Grant
Administered By
University of British Columbia
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2011
Responsible Investing Initiative (2011 - 2015)$979,623
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($979,623)
Scheme
Community University Research Alliance
Administered By
Carleton University
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Hebb T; Clarke G; Hawley J; Phillips S; Weber O
Period
2011 - 2015
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability (2011 - 2014)$714,000
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($714,000)
Scheme
Canada Research Chairs Program
Administered By
University of British Columbia
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Period
2011 - 2014
Sustainable Companies - how to make companies contribute effectively to mitigation of climate change (2010 - 2013)$1,120,340
Funding
Norwegian Research Council ($1,120,340)
Scheme
Grant
Administered By
University of Oslo
Research Team
Sjafjell B; Richardson BJ; Buhmann K; Clarke B; Deipenbrock G; Johnston A; Lambooy T; Majonen J
Period
2010 - 2013
Fiduciary Finance and Sustainable Development (2009 - 2012)$113,871
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($113,871)
Scheme
Standard Research Grant
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Period
2009 - 2012
Socially and Environmentally Responsible Development in a Rapidly Evolving Canadian and Circumpolar North (2009 - 2010)$23,280
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($23,280)
Scheme
Community University Research Alliance
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Cragg W; Richardson BJ; Bradshaw B; Haig-Brown C; Klinck R; Siebenmorgan P
Period
2009 - 2010
Developing Communication Tools for Socially Responsible Development in the Rapidly Evolving Canadian North (2009 - 2010)$87,300
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($87,300)
Scheme
Public Outreach Grant
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Cragg W; Richardson BJ; Bradshaw B; Haig-Brown C; Klinck R; Siebenmorgan P
Period
2009 - 2010
Natural Resources Law Knowledge Network (2008)$5,735
Funding
Natural Resources Canada (Government of Canada) ($5,735)
Scheme
Seed Grant
Administered By
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Wood S; Benidickson J
Year
2008
Conference on Climate Law and Developing Countries (2008)$11,471
Funding
International Development Research Centre (Canada) ($11,471)
Scheme
Conference Grant
Administered By
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Bouthiliier YL; Benidickson J
Year
2008
Conference on Climate Law and Developing Countries (2008)$28,679
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($28,679)
Scheme
Conference Grant
Administered By
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Bouthiliier YL
Year
2008
Conference on Climate Law and Developing Countries (2008)$32,121
Funding
Canadian International Development Agency ($32,121)
Scheme
Conference Grant
Administered By
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Bouthiliier YL
Year
2008
Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) (2007 - 2011)$2,286,087
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($2,286,087)
Scheme
Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Cragg W; Brooks L; Webb K; Sampford C
Period
2007 - 2011
National Aboriginal Law Moot (2006)$12,551
Funding
Canada Department of Justice ($12,551)
Scheme
Educational Grant
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Year
2006
Socially Responsible Investment Law (2005 - 2007)$88,998
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($88,998)
Scheme
Standard Research Grant
Administered By
York University
Research Team
Richardson BJ
Period
2005 - 2007
New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law (1998)$12,460
Funding
New Zealand Law Foundation ($12,460)
Scheme
Grant
Administered By
Auckland University
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Bosselmann K; Palmer K; Grinlinton D
Year
1998
Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms conference (1997)$26,400
Funding
New Zealand Law Foundation ($26,400)
Scheme
Grant
Administered By
Auckland University
Research Team
Richardson BJ; Bosselmann K; Palmer K; Grinlinton D
Year
1997

Research Supervision

Professor Richardson has many years of experience supervising Master and PhD students in an exceptionally wide variety of subjects. These include all dimensions of environmental law, as well as aspects of Aboriginal law, international law, business law, and refugee and human rights law. For instance, his current PhD supervisions include two Canadian students from the University of British Columbia who are researching corporate social responsibility and transnational peace parks.

Professor Richardson is also often asked to participate as an examiner of graduate theses completed at other universities in Australia and abroad. He particularly welcomes opportunities to supervise research legal issues relating to socially responsible investment, eco-restoration, and the role of 'time' in environmental decision-making.

Current

3

Completed

3

Current

DegreeTitleCommenced
PhDCorporate disclosure regimes and corporations' environmental performance in Australia2017
PhDInterpreting and Applying the Term 'Public Order' in Africa's Expanded Refugee Definition2020
PhDPrivate land conservation mechanisms and their role in environmental law: a study of governance and practice2022

Completed

DegreeTitleCompleted
PhDPlaying the Long Game: Considering the interests of young people and future generations in climate law-making
Candidate: Nicky Anna Maria Van Dijk
2023
PhDConsideration of Climate Risk by Pension Funds: A just transition risk lens
Candidate: Muhammed Zain Ul Abedin
2021
PhDPrivate-Sector Engagement in Regional Fisheries Management Organisations to which Australia is a Party
Candidate: Elise Anne Murray
2020